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Author Castiglione, Caroline

Title Patrons and Adversaries : Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (488 pages)
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Barberini Buy a Piece of Paradise While They Descend into Hell -- Newcomers in a “Patchwork City of Strangers� -- Making Appear Real What in Fact Was Feigned: The Barberini and Their Acquisitions in the Countryside -- The Charcoal Seller, the Hunter, and the Priest -- Speaking in Constitutions: The Villagers Talk Back to Their New Lords -- 2 Before It Was a Dirty Word: Politics in the Roman Countryside, 1640s�1680s -- Uncovering Village Politics
Failed Possession: Nerola and the Recovered Statuto“To Listen to These Hill-Folk, You�d Think Every One of Them Was a Lawyer� -- 3 The Adversary as Patron: Inviting the Barberini into Village Politics, 1660�1685 -- Taxes Paid and Houses Open: Citizens in the Countryside -- Petitioning the “First Citizen� to Be the Noble Patron of Monte Libretti -- The Prince as Mediator: Medical Controversies in Monte Libretti -- Private Interest Versus Public Good
4 The Epistolary Ambush of Monte Libretti: How Nobles Met the Challenge of the Papacy in the Early Eighteenth CenturyA Bureaucracy of Budgets -- A Bureaucracy on Horseback -- Administrative Vagabonds and Unreliable Paesani: Officials in Service to the Barberini -- Controlling Politics in a Land “Where Everyone Is a Debtor� -- 5 Paternalism and Politics: Benevolent Adversaries, Antagonistic Patrons -- The Lord�s Catechism -- Dreaming of the Well-Ordered Consiglio: Barberini Efforts to Limit Political Participation
Beyond Tax Trouble in the Village: Clerics, Shirkers, and Vanishing ArchivesInduce Them with Kindness to Comply with the Law -- 6 Writing Resistance: Village Attacks on Textual Monopolies in Eighteenth-Century Italy -- Everyday Controversies of the 1740s -- Making History in Monte Flavio, 1750 -- Clerical Response to Adversarial Literacy -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The Barberini Family Tree -- Appendix 2 Money, Weights, and Measures -- Appendix 3 Population of the Stato of Monte Libretti -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary The early modern Roman countryside was a site of contestation between great aristocratic families and an expanding papal political regime. Rarely has the role of the inhabitants of this landscape--the villagers--been considered as part of that power struggle. As Caroline Castiglione shows in this compelling revisionist work, one Roman aristocratic family, the Barberini, was not squeezed out of governing by the extension of the papal bureaucracy, but rather became increasingly engaged with it during the long eighteenth century. Through their participation in the rural commune, villagers in an e
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Subject Barberini family.
SUBJECT Barberini family fast
Subject Nobility -- Italy -- Rome -- History
Feudalism -- Italy -- Monte Libretti -- History
Villages -- Italy -- Monte Libretti -- History
Papacy -- History -- 1566-1799.
Feudalism
Nobility
Papacy
Politics and government
Villages
SUBJECT Monte Libretti (Italy) -- History
Rome (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1420-1798. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006697
Subject Italy -- Monte Libretti
Italy -- Rome
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195346626
0195346629